All anon Fight Rising positivity, all the time

Because FR is full of amazing art and creativity, and that is worth applauding! Owners of the dragons/art/lore/etc will be tumblr-pinged when possible (ie when I can find their tumblr).

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Top 4 review for the Sunlit Silver clan belonging to @deadvalkyrie-fr!

Valkyrie has such a powerful sense of mood and environment and motion about her. The way the tatters from the carapace arm are shaded, plus her accent, plus the red of the rose banners... it looks like firelight is gleaming off of her, like wind full of soot and cinders is blowing past and making her clothing billow in the hot gusts of air, it's so so cool. I feel like I can smell the heat and ash. I mean dang, this is cool

Rogue’s appearance really tells a story and that’s great. The garnet color of her runes stands out so jarringly against all that blue, and paired with her lore? You nailed this one. It was such an 'aha!' moment to scroll down and see that she's a blood mage. Awesome use also of staff and candles. This is just a cool, ominous lady.

Samara is wearing that accent so well! There's a little too much going on with that accent all on its own, but you've added enough apparel to it that it breaks up how busy it is and it makes her look fantastic. Best use of the new twilight oracle guise I've ever seen so far as well. Just cool and intimidating and beautiful.

....OK but Eva, Eva takes the prize. When I browsed to the page she's on I literally felt my eyes get big and leaned back from my computer table to think 'woah!' Oh she's so pretty. That warm gold on the flat white canvas. I'm so happy that you were brave enough to leave her primary basic. She's just elegant and beautiful and so dang good looking. She even has the matching eyes. Like I wish I had a prize to give this dragon. Like... my chest hurts, I don’t think you understand how much I love this Fae, you just don’t.

Bonus: Another lair full of matching familiars! Dang I have to up my game.

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A top 4 review for The Luxumbra Isles belonging to @leukowii-fr!

Adelaide is such a well dressed lady, look at this darn. I’ve never noticed what a pretty bamboo pattern the wind cape has on it, and laying on top of the dryad guise makes it look like she has some kind of fantastic ball gown thing. Plus- is that a spring tert? You made spring look good! What a good job.

I really enjoyed looking at the things going on with Spirit’s apparel. The rogue masks are usually really silly looking but hiding it under the collar makes it look like she has a cool, mysterious veil thing on, and the forehead gem from the headpiece dangles at the perfect length. The ribbons all over her wings tell everyone that she means business! I love her, fantastic.

Cobalt just made me feel good and warm inside, I know he’s hardly wearing any apparel but just… the way the thylacine makes the white in his giraffe/hex fade into this perfect blue gradient… he’s just so handsome, I want to go find an identical twin of him to buy, I’m blown away.

The color matching going on with Kella, DANG. The brown highlights in her opal makes it look like this glassy stuff is semi-transparent over her ginger primary/secondary, she looks so cool, I can’t wait to see what else you do with this dragon.

Bonus: EVERYONE HAS PERFECTLY MATCHED FAMILIARS

(Edited to note: I originally pinged the wrong person and linked the wrong lair with this post, sorry about that! It should be fixed now.)

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Sorry for the snafu everyone, reblogging once with a new ping to @leukowii-fr since I messed it up the first time and I don’t think they ever got their ping.

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A top 4 review for The Luxumbra Isles belonging to @leukowii-fr!

Adelaide is such a well dressed lady, look at this darn. I've never noticed what a pretty bamboo pattern the wind cape has on it, and laying on top of the dryad guise makes it look like she has some kind of fantastic ball gown thing. Plus- is that a spring tert? You made spring look good! What a good job.

I really enjoyed looking at the things going on with Spirit's apparel. The rogue masks are usually really silly looking but hiding it under the collar makes it look like she has a cool, mysterious veil thing on, and the forehead gem from the headpiece dangles at the perfect length. The ribbons all over her wings tell everyone that she means business! I love her, fantastic.

Cobalt just made me feel good and warm inside, I know he's hardly wearing any apparel but just... the way the thylacine makes the white in his giraffe/hex fade into this perfect blue gradient... he's just so handsome, I want to go find an identical twin of him to buy, I'm blown away.

The color matching going on with Kella, DANG. The brown highlights in her opal makes it look like this glassy stuff is semi-transparent over her ginger primary/secondary, she looks so cool, I can't wait to see what else you do with this dragon.

Bonus: EVERYONE HAS PERFECTLY MATCHED FAMILIARS

(Edited to note: I originally pinged the wrong person and linked the wrong lair with this post, sorry about that! It should be fixed now.)

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Top four review from the frozen lair of @mewhakufr​!

Sparrowhawk caught my eye so fast, I love the warm contrast of his browns and golds against the blue of your lair’s Ice graphics (and I guess the blue dragons around him too). That accent is so perfect, it adds just the right amount of gilding against his secondary color. So nice, so good.

Appreciation for Lenzin wearing that new Sage apparel like it was meant to be worn hot dang. The accent suits him and the colors in the apparel really well too. Just great color coordination on this dragon.

Evelyn is so neat? I don’t think I’ve ever seen a color combo quite like this, really cool use of stained, and then you bring the blue and pink out more separately in the clothing so it doesn’t get all muddled. Look, you’re good at putting clothes on dragons, okay?

I’m sorry to keep picking warm things when your lair has so much neat looking cool blue colors but Sarah is so adorable. Kind of scholarly and kind of classy and very balanced and oh look at that’ she’s a fan dragon, hello there bio! *cracks up*

Really nice lair, I easily could have picked more than four but I’m trying to keep these reviews the same size!

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Giving this one from back in... July? (Wow I’ve been away for a long time) a reblog, because I have reason to think the owner ( @mewhakufr!) didn’t get to see it. 

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Top four review for @ghiblilove-fr‘s Clan Pearreed!

Piper is so eye-catching with that labradorite accent, and the lighter green in the celadon silks warms her colors back up. Just a really neat dragon that grabbed me as soon as I saw her thumbnail. 

Oh Daisy is such a sweet soft girl. I felt so vindicated when I scrolled down to her lore and it was exactly what her appearance made me expect! Fun to see a big, bulky, largely black and white dragon topped off with soft pinks and a warm fuzzy personality. Just really cute and charming.

This unnamed Guardian lady makes me want to clutch my heart and fall out of my chair. That dark blue! With the bright gold! AHH! Heck, I’ve had this accent on a dragon of my own for ages and ages, and I never noticed how the front legs have those cutouts to show the dragon’s primary color through, but here it’s impossible to miss. This is just so good and regal and elegant.

Another cool Snapper- I feel like Elladan must have a neat lore backstory or a cool story that she’s a part of. I can’t put my finger on it, there’s just something about how the the green of her pear colored runes looks like the glow of water reflecting on the walls of a cave or something, I feel like a really neat and interesting thing is going on here. Ping me if you ever post writing for her, ok?

Bonus link: very cool clan lore thread!

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Hey all, I know it’s been a really long time since this blog has posted anything but I’m still around! I just have a really tight pinch on free time! 

Sorry to anyone who’s disappointed by the wait time between that ‘sign up for reviews’ post and any hope of actually seeing their lairs reviewed, but I do what I can. You’re all still awesome. 

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Top 4 review for the lair of @illuminarydragons!

Gosh darnit what are you doing to me, I love blue and I love gold and I love glowy highlights, I open your lair and BAM! Like ten things I adore right off the bat. How am I supposed to pick four things out of this whole awesome lair?!

Lotus is #1 for me, right off the top, bam, this beauty wins the gold. Wow. Money well spent for that bee gene, worth every gem. The accent, the silks, her tert, just flawless how it all works together. Dang.

I’m loving how the deep blue and the warm cream colors work together for Dione. And the jewelry and accent match so well that it’s hard to tell where one starts and the other ends without really looking closely. So elegant, so regal.

Latte has some fantastic apparel layering! The sage shawl and cover are mostly hidden, but just the right parts of it peek out, all together it makes what almost looks like a whole new apparel set. The blue tints in her spinner wings go with the blue of the rags, the auburn runes match the smoke in the candles- how did you get this good with color?!

Hlaupa is such a cute warm graceful lady. The accent she has is so cute, all your pink highlights go well together, and her art is so so good. Those freckles! What a beauty.

Honorable mention to Emeline because a) she’s pretty and b) it’s cold where I live and this pretty beach dragon made me feel less frozen while I looked at her.

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Top four review from the frozen lair of @mewhakufr​!

Sparrowhawk caught my eye so fast, I love the warm contrast of his browns and golds against the blue of your lair’s Ice graphics (and I guess the blue dragons around him too). That accent is so perfect, it adds just the right amount of gilding against his secondary color. So nice, so good.

Appreciation for Lenzin wearing that new Sage apparel like it was meant to be worn hot dang. The accent suits him and the colors in the apparel really well too. Just great color coordination on this dragon.

Evelyn is so neat? I don’t think I’ve ever seen a color combo quite like this, really cool use of stained, and then you bring the blue and pink out more separately in the clothing so it doesn’t get all muddled. Look, you’re good at putting clothes on dragons, okay?

I’m sorry to keep picking warm things when your lair has so much neat looking cool blue colors but Sarah is so adorable. Kind of scholarly and kind of classy and very balanced and oh look at that’ she’s a fan dragon, hello there bio! *cracks up*

Really nice lair, I easily could have picked more than four but I’m trying to keep these reviews the same size!

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I'm so happy to see you all here! My thanks to everyone who put their name in the compliments pool! I'm looking forward to going through all of your dragons.

A couple things I just wanted to put out there-

I added every single name so far into a spreadsheet, and I'll do my best to get to everybody! Sometimes I'll go through in order and sometimes I'll use a number generator to make it random, we'll see how it goes. I get tired quickly most days so it’ll probably take me a long time to reach the whole list, and my apologies to anyone who ends up waiting an extra long while for their turn.

I've seen more than one person say that they'd like to do something like this but they worry that it would be weird of them, so I just want to point out to everyone that it's not weird at all! Pretty much everyone desperately wants other people to look at and comment on their dragons! The huge turnout you see on blogs like this one is proof of that.  You would almost definitely be granting someone's wish that they don't dare ask for!

We all want the FR community to be a place full of creativity and encouragement, and one of the best ways to do that is to pump each other up. If you see a dragon you really like, please consider letting the owner know, either here on tumblr or on FR! You'll probably make their day and you'll definitely make Flight Rising a better place.

I love you and your creative thoughts so much and I hope you all keep working to make your dragons and their characters what you really want them to be. Have a great night everyone!

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Top four for RockehRawr / @danisdragons!

I love the... atmosphere? of this Skydancer girl, the autumn leaf colors with the cobwebs and bones, it’s a strong look!

Winifred looks like a lot of fun! If I ever saw a dragon begging for a bio outline it’s this one. Those steampunk wings are hard to use well but they match with the Lightning boots really well and the combo turns them into something way better looking than they can usually manage.

The green highlights in this Guardian’s eldritch petals are so good, and the orange tint in the butterfly highlights too, it’s all really eye catching- and then you have A+ familiar matching on top of it!

Levia probably cost you quite a bit for all those silks but WOW that was WORTH IT. Fantastic use of white stained, she looks ethereal and frosted and perfect.

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Hello out there! This blog has been quiet for a while, hasn’t it? I’d like to fire this goodwill machine back up, but before I do, let’s fix one of the things that made it difficult for me last time.

Searching through the FR tags looking for people who had active blogs and links to their lair was kind of a pain.

So here’s the deal: if you’d like to be on the list of lairs I go through at random to compliment the dragons inside, reblog this with a link to your lair or profile!

Don’t be shy! I don’t care if you’ve been here for four days or four years. If the idea of getting random dragon compliments would brighten up your day then put yourself on the list. I do these on and off when I have the free time to spare so there’s no promises that I’ll get to everyone but it can’t hurt to put yourself in the mix.

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Just to be extra clear, I’m asking please for *links I can click on to go straight to your lair,* not just your username/ID#

I mean I can work with the ID# but that copy and paste is one extra step, and if it’s a day where my wrists are hurting from too much coli or something sparing me that extra step helps a lot!

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Hello out there! This blog has been quiet for a while, hasn't it? I'd like to fire this goodwill machine back up, but before I do, let's fix one of the things that made it difficult for me last time.

Searching through the FR tags looking for people who had active blogs and links to their lair was kind of a pain.

So here's the deal: if you'd like to be on the list of lairs I go through at random to compliment the dragons inside, reblog this with a link to your lair or profile!

Don't be shy! I don't care if you've been here for four days or four years. If the idea of getting random dragon compliments would brighten up your day then put yourself on the list. I do these on and off when I have the free time to spare so there’s no promises that I’ll get to everyone but it can’t hurt to put yourself in the mix.

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A few pretty kids from the lair of @poodlemith!

I’m drowning in excellent blue/brown color combos today and I am going to die happy.

Oh hey look how well named and well dressed what a fancy OH MY HE HAS THE EYES.

This dapper pink lemonade child made me smile.

THAT is a dragon worth going broke for my friend, you made the right decisions here. Dang. I didn’t know it was possible for a dragon to make a windblown tuft of dead grass look so good but somehow this works SUPER WELL. Along with his colors and markings it creates such a Mood.

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A top 4 for @dadragon-fr from their lair here!

Oh I really like how the transparent red sits on top of the sparkling beige tones, that’s a nice match.

WHAT A CLASSY LADY SNAP. She looks like she’s going out for a fancy dinner. I love her.

The deep reds on the black and white contrast is so nice, the play between the darker and brighter reds together look so good, very handsome fluff.

That Contour stripe brings the primary colors and the secondary shapes together so well!

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A quick Top 4 for @fr-mikki from this fabulous lair!

That is some A+ classy Contour right there

Yes! Those glowing Skink/Spin marks! With that tert stripe! Reminds me of bio-luminescent fish, fantastic.

What a good accent. Such nice little flashes of gold.

I feel like this bronze-gold-blue color combo has improved my life. Seriously. Like you know when you see something so pretty outside, like a sunrise is just so or whatever, and you feel filled with peace and the certainty that even if life sucks sometimes it’s going to be ok too? That is what these colors make me feel like. Hot darn. That’s some glimmer.

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Everyone’s gotta start somewhere.

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I... I love everything about this.

I mean usually I try to give very specific compliments but... the familiars. The decorations hanging from the weapon. The solid anatomy and the way their pose accounts for the weight of the scythe. EVERYTHING.

This is fantastic. Wow wow wow. Please keep drawing.

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stragglers, from the hewn city. yet, their eyes gleam as red as fresh blood from an open wound. how strange of them to show up now..their pendants seem to hold secrets of their pasts.

i seem to be unable to have graceful/regal imperials oops. my new girl Sulphur and her ‘mate’ Chernobog (showing him off again. because i?? love him so)

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Oh my gosh that lady Imp has the most fantastic use of Skink! What a good decision there! And they’re so well dressed too. What a solid spooky pair. Excellent job.